Torre Cube I is a skyscraper in Guadalajara (Mexico), which measures 70 meters high and is in an area of high seismic intensity. Built between 2002 and 2005, it includes three vertical reinforced concrete blocks capable of withstanding earthquakes and acting as support in the event of a crisis. For Carme Pinós, Catalan architect and author of the tower, the building was also the pillar to which she took refuge after the divorce of her husband and until then studio partner, Enric Miralles. He wanted them to continue working together, but she preferred alone, In 1991, she became one of the few Spanish architects to have her own studio..
«I wanted to become independent from the moment we separated. I wanted to work at my own pace. It was difficult for me because at that time there were very few female architects. But I don’t like victimization. I got ahead, especially at the beginning because of international support,” recalls Pinós (Barcelona, 1954), who feels devotion to Cube I, whose model is part of the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York «It was a turning point in my career. The client gave me his trust and from there I was able to develop my works in other places,” adds the 2021 National Architecture Prize winner.
Pinós, also the author of the historic center of Barcelona that includes the Plaza de la Gardunya, the Massana Art School and the rear façade of the Boquería Market, has managed to make a place for herself in architecture. For her, the latter is the area in which citizens “develop our sociability, which helps us interact. “That is why it must be on a human scale.”
The architect is one of the 25 Spanish professionals whom EL PERIÓDICO has identified as being leaders in their fields and contribute to the progress of people without harming the planet. Many of them go unnoticed and are underrepresented in the country’s public debate. Lawyers, architects, engineers, economists, researchers, editors, financiers and managers and family businesswomen of all ages and backgrounds. With their work, they contribute to the advancement of art, science and the economy in Spain. They have created, participated in or promoted projects and people linked to art, science and the economy, such as Rosalía (Sony Music, Blanca Salcedo), the telescope James Webb (Begoña Vila), Jon Is (Núria Cabuti, Penguin Random House), the Super Computing Center (Marta Melé), the sacred Family (Aina July), Calvin Klein (Eva Serrano) o the Icahn School of Medicine (Mount Sinai, Ana Fernández-Sesma), among others.
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Like Pinos, Lesser Pillar He has also grown up alone. She, born in Madrid in 1972, is the senior partner in Spain and the global co-director of labor at the international law firm DLA Piper. «As a young man I entered an office and set up the labor law department. I did it without being a partner and without another laborer in the firm. I made the unit profitable and represented a success story,” says Menor, who from there would begin an unstoppable rise, compatible with risky motherhood (she had twins after 40). However, what she is proud of is being part of the right to work. «The pandemic turned labor lawyers into transcendental ones, with temporary employment files and with the Official State Gazette fuming. Now, in addition, we are valued for the race towards sustainability of many companies, which defend responsible capitalism, and for the importance of social dialogue, which is key at a time like the current one.
Menor is one of the few women who They occupy top-level positions in the legal world in Spain, just like Cristina Camarero, managing partner of the international firm Ontier in Spain. «Today, promotion to leadership is not a question of gender but of merit and interest. Therefore, I must admit that it gives me some discouragement to see that the debate has not been settled at this point. I am convinced that women have a lot to contribute. If society in general was clear about the above, more time would be dedicated to giving visibility to many women who play relevant roles and who, in many cases, go unnoticed,” adds Camarero (Málaga, 1978). In his opinion, «we can and must give more visibility to all the women who have things to contribute, and there are very many of them.Maybe they don’t dedicate too much time to giving visibility to what they do because they are extraordinarily busy.», says the head of Ontier, who before taking up her current position was a litigation and arbitration partner at the firm, a position to which she arrived seven months pregnant with her third child.
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Entrepreneurship is an activity as demanding as law and just as hopeful in the advances it achieves, especially in the technological area. Rita Almela he knows it well. Founder of the robotics company Redwoods Dynamics, chairs the Spanish Association of Directors in Catalonia and is a member of the board of directors of the Cercle d’Economía, as well as a director of CaixaBank Payments & Consumer. «All the automation that we can add to companies generates more value and more efficiency. And we will see much more in the future. It will eliminate jobs in the short term, yes, but also in the very short and medium term it will allow people to focus on other contributions linked to strategy or creativity, for example,” adds Almela (Barcelona, 1983).
Nuria Chinchilla, professor of People Management in Organizations at IESE, summarizes the value of the professionals identified by EL PERIÓDICO. “They are leaders who, with their work, are building society and changing the world.”
2023-12-24 06:09:08
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